chosing a good programming language

[hackophreak56]

i have been wanting to learn to program for a long time now. i dont really know which language to start with. plz send your suggestions.

[vampelle]

If you're just wanting to piddle around with what you can do with programming, I'll suggest a BASIC langauge for you like RealBasic, Visual Basic, and Rapid Q Basic. If you're wanting to get into the nitty gritty, which, I think, many of the people on the net do, I suggest a higher level language such as C, C++, or C#.
I'm personally learning C at this time. If you'd like, you and I can learn together and share resources.
Do you need a website that contains tutorials by chance?

[hackophreak56]

learning and sharing resources together sounds good i was actually thinking about learning c anyway a site with tutorials sounds good send the link plz

[vampelle]

http://www.programmingtutorials.com
This site has links to many tutorials on assembly, C, and quite a few others, including VB. PM me with your AIM or MSN SN so we can keep in touch a little easier (since I'm planning on staying away from AO).

[OrK]

I have been trying to learn to program for the past 5 years.

Well, I know how to, but just very basic stuff.

After expirementing with several languages:

Perl
C/C++
Basic
Python

I have concluded the best, and easiest to start learning with is Python.

Just my personal opionion.

To get python --> goto: http://www.python.org

Python is a high-level language, with a lot of power behind it. It's what google.com uses for variouse things. If I what I read was true....

Anyways, that's what I think.

[vampelle]

I really never tried python. I'll have to look into that myself after I learn C and Java. Assembly wasn't the best of all languages to learn itself, then again, it's lower level language. Thanks for the tip on Python.

[alphabetarian]

My first language was C, so I'm kind of partial to that one. Java's good too, but can be a bit lengthy at times...like how it takes 3 or 4 lines of code to set up to read something in from the command line to C's one (usually). But a cool thing about the more popular high-level languages are decently similar, so that a lot of the stuff you may learn in one, can be carried over to another. C/C++, Java, and Perl are like this, and I'm sure some others are as well. Those are just the ones I've played with.

alph

[CS4Life]

I've used python for some basic website development and it's very simplistic and easy to learn. If you're interested I have a few links that'll get your feet wet.

[hackophreak56]

yea shure wend me some links.

[vampelle]

I was searching around on the net and came across this language and compiler called "Dream Maker". Does anyone know any information on this?
I was playing with Python earlier today for about 7 hours and I personally didn't feel like Python was for me, even though it was as simple and probably as powerful as you guys say.
I still suggest C.